Need help with text alignment in Microsoft Word 2007!

So, here’s the deal—whenever I’m working in Microsoft Word 2007 and I set some text to "justify," it looks all pretty and flush on both sides, right? But the catch is that it always stretches out my sentences in such a weird way, leaving these massive, awkward gaps between words. It honestly ends up looking way messier than if I just stuck with standard left alignment.
Does anyone know a trick to get that clean, justified look without those huge, ugly spaces popping up between words?
Thanks a bunch!

Something needs to be stretched out a bit just to get the text properly justified on both sides